分段

分段

Chinese

		to divide; minute; (a measure word) to divide; minute; (a measure word); (a unit of leng	paragraph; section; segment
trad. (分段)		分	段
simp. #(分段)		分	段

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēnduàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ ㄉㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ dyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēnduàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fenduàn
    • Wade–Giles: fên¹-tuan⁴
    • Yale: fēn-dwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenduann
    • Palladius: фэньдуань (fɛnʹduanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵ twän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹ dyun⁶
    • Yale: fān dyuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ dyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ dün⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ tyːn²²/

Verb

分段

1. to divide into segments, sections or paragraphs

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
分	段
ぶん Grade: 2	だん Grade: 6

Etymology

Attested from at least the 12th century.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ᵝndã̠ɴ]

Noun

分(ぶん)段(だん) • (bundan) 

1. a segment, section; the end of something, end of a section; a break, stopping place
   • 1925, Hirota Denzō, Beikoku genzai no kyōiku [Contemporary American education], page 357:

     然(しか)しこの推(すい)定(てい)は維(い)持(じ)することが出(で)来(き)ない。學(がっ)校(こう)の分(ぶん)段(だん)は管(かん)理(り)の要(よう)素(そ)として必(ひつ)要(よう)なものである。

     Shikashi kono suitei wa iji suru koto ga dekinai. Gakkō no bundan wa kanri no yōso to shite hitsuyō na mono de aru.

     However, this presumption cannot be maintained. Segmentation of schools is a necessary element of their management.

2. (Buddhism) abbreviation of 分段生死 (“death and rebirth; reincarnation”), 分段身 (“one who is reincarnated”), or 分段同居 (“the present world, world of the living”)

References

1. “分段”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN